Critical care in obstetrics: Clinical audit in the Republic of Ireland, 2014-2016.

Introduction: Admission to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in obstetrics is often used as a proxy for maternal near miss/severe maternal morbidity (MNM/SMM) events. Understanding incidence and management of pregnant or postpartum patients requiring critical care (CC) is thus important for continued improvement of maternity care. This study aims to describe provision of critical care in obstetrics in the Republic of Ireland.

Major obstetric haemorrhage: Incidence, management and quality of care in Irish maternity units.

Objective: To assess major obstetric haemorrhage incidence, management and quality of care in Irish maternity units.

Design: In collaboration with Irish maternity units the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre (Leitao et al., 2020) carried out a national clinical audit and surveillance of major obstetric haemorrhage (MOH).

Peripartum hysterectomy incidence, risk factors and clinical characteristics in Ireland.

Background: The incidence of peripartum hysterectomy (PH) shows fifty-fold variation worldwide (0.2-10.5/1000 deliveries) and risk factors include advancing maternal age and parity, previous caesarean section (CS) and abnormal placentation.